Editing Zuni people

{{short description|Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley}}
{{use mdy dates|date=June 2022}}
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|native_name=A:shiwi
|native_name_lang=zun
|image=Zuni-girl-with-jar2.png
|image_upright=0.7
|caption = Zuni girl with jar, 1903
|total=19,228 enrolled members {{citation needed|date=September 2018}}
|total_year=2015
|total_ref=
|popplace=[[United States]] ([[New Mexico]])
|langs=[[Zuni language|Zuni]], [[English language|English]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]]
|related=[[Pueblo people]]
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[[File:Zuni map.svg|thumb|Map of historical distribution of Zuni (light green) and current Zuni land (dark green)]]

The '''Zuni''' ({{langx|zun|'''A<nowiki>:</nowiki>shiwi'''}}; formerly spelled ''Zuñi'') are [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] [[Pueblo people]]s native to the [[Zuni River]] valley. The Zuni people today are [[Federally recognized tribe|federally recognized]] as the '''Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico''', and most live in the [[Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico|Pueblo of Zuni]] on the Zuni River, a tributary of the [[Little Colorado River]], in western [[New Mexico]], [[United States]]. The Pueblo of Zuni is {{convert|55|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of [[Gallup, New Mexico]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/indian-tribes/zuni-tribe.htm|title=Zuni Tribe: Facts, Clothes, Food and History ***|website=www.warpaths2peacepipes.com|access-date=2018-11-20}}</ref> The Zuni tribe lived in multi level adobe houses. In addition to the reservation, the tribe owns trust lands in [[Catron County, New Mexico]], and [[Apache County, Arizona]].<ref>[http://www.ashiwi.org/ "Welcome"], ''Pueblo of Zuni,'' (retrieved 13 Feb 2011)</ref> The Zuni call their homeland ''Halona Idiwan’a ''or Middle Place.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.zunitourism.com/|title=Experience Zuni|website=www.zunitourism.com|access-date=2017-11-08}}</ref> The word ''Zuni'' is believed to derive from the [[Keres language|Western Keres language]] ([[Acoma Pueblo|Acoma]]) word ''sɨ̂‧ni'', or a cognate thereof.

==History==
Archaeology suggests that the Zuni have been farmers in the general area for 3,000 to 4,000 years. It is now thought that the Ancestral Zuni people inhabited the [[Zuni River]] valley from the last millennium B.C., when they began using [[irrigation]] to farm [[maize]] on at least household-sized plots.<ref>''Zuni Origins: Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology'', The University of Arizona Press (2009), {{ISBN|978-0816528936}}, edited by David A. Gregory and David R. Wilcox, p. 119</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author=Damp, Jonathan E.|year=2008|title=The Economic Origins of Zuni|journal=Archaeology Southwest|volume=22|issue=2|page=8|url=http://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/pdf/arch-sw-v22-no2.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912114537/http://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/pdf/arch-sw-v22-no2.pdf|archive-date=12 September 2014|url-status=live}}; see also {{Cite book|author=Damp, Jonathan E.|year=2010|chapter=Zuni emergent agriculture: economic strategies and the origins of Zuni|editor=Gregory, David A. |editor2=Wilcox, David R.|title=Zuni Origins: Toward a new synthesis of Southwestern archaeology|publisher=University of Arizona Press|location=Tucson, Arizona|pages=118&ndash;132|isbn=978-0-8165-2893-6}}</ref>

[[File:Zuni Salt Lake.jpg|thumb|Zuni Salt Lake, New Mexico, where the Zuni have harvested salt for centuries]]

Zuni culture is associated with [[Mogollon culture|Mogollon]] and [[Ancestral Pueblo peoples]] cultures, who lived in the deserts of New Mexico, [[Arizona]], [[Utah]], and southern [[Colorado]] for over two millennia. White Mound was one such settlement of pit houses, farming, and storerooms, built around 700 [[A.D.]], followed by the village of Kiatuthlanna around 800 A.D., and Allantown around 1000 A.D. These Mogollon villages included [[kiva]]s. Likewise, Zuni ancestors were in contact with the [[Ancestral Puebloans]] at [[Chaco Canyon]] around 1100. The Zuni settlement called Village of the Great Kivas, was built around 1100, and included nine kivas. The Zuni region, however, was probably only sparsely populated by small agricultural settlements until the 12th century when the population and the size of the settlements began to increase. The large villages of Heshot Ula, Betatakin, and Kiet Siel were established by 1275. By the 13th century villages were built on top of mesas, including Atsinna on Inscription Rock. In the 14th century, the Zuni inhabited a dozen pueblos containing between 180 and 1,400 rooms, while the Anasazi abandoned larger settlements for smaller ones, or established new ones along the Rio Grande. The Zuni did move from the eastern portion of their territory to the western side, and built six new villages, Halona, Hawikuh, Kiakima, Matsaki, Kwakina, and Kechipaun.{{refn|Also ''Kechipauan'' or ''Kechipauen''.<ref name="clark">{{cite book |last1=Clark |first1=Patricia Roberts |title=Tribal Names of the Americas: Spelling Variants and Alternative Forms, Cross-Referenced |date=21 October 2009 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5169-2 |pages=10,104 |language=en}}</ref>}} Halona was located 97&nbsp;km north Zuni Salt Lake, and the Zuni traded in salt, corn and [[turquoise]]. Hawikuh was claimed by Niza to be one of the [[Seven Cities of Cibola]], a legendary 16th century wealthy empire.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kintigh |first=Keith |year=2008 |title=Zuni Settlement Patterns: A.D. 950–1680 |journal=Archaeology Southwest |volume=22 
|issue=2 |page=15&ndash;16 |url=http://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/pdf/arch-sw-v22-no2.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912114537/http://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/pdf/arch-sw-v22-no2.pdf |archive-date=12 September 2014 |url-status=live}}; see also {{Cite book |last=Kintigh |first=Keith |year=2010 |chapter=Late prehistoric and late prehistoric settlement systems in the Zuni area |editor1-last=Gregory |editor1-first=David A. |editor2-last=Wilcox |editor2-first=David R. |title=Zuni Origins: Toward a new synthesis of Southwestern archaeology |publisher=[[University of Arizona Press]] |location=Tucson, Arizona |pages=361&ndash;376|isbn=978-0-8165-2893-6}}</ref><ref name=p109>Pritzker 109</ref><ref name="nb">{{cite book |last1=Bonvillain |first1=Nancy |title=The Zuni |date=2011 |publisher=Chelsea House |location=New York |isbn=9781604137996 |pages=18–23, 56–57}}</ref>

In 1539, [[Moors|Moorish]] slave [[Estevanico]] led an advance party of [[Fray Marcos de Niza]]'s Spanish expedition. Sponsored by [[Antonio de Mendoza]] who wanted Niza to "explain to the natives of the land that there is only one God in heaven, and the Emperor on earth to rule and govern it, whose subjects they all must become and whom they must serve." The Zuni reportedly killed Estevanico as a spy, or for being "greedy, voracious and bold".<ref name=p109/> This was Spain's first contact with any of the Pueblo peoples.<ref>David Roberts, ''The Pueblo Revolt'', 56 (Simon and Schuster, 2004). {{ASIN|B000MC1CHQ}}. Reprint, 2005, {{ISBN|0-7432-5517-8}}</ref> [[Francisco Vásquez de Coronado]] expedition followed in the wake of Niza's Seven Cities of Cibola claim. Sponsored once again by Mendoza, Coronado led 230 soldiers on horseback, 70 foot soldiers, several [[Franciscan priest]]s and Mexican natives. The Spanish met 600 Zuni warriors near [[Hawikuh Ruins|Hawikuh]] in July 1540, inflicting several casualties, and capturing the village. Coronado continued to the Rio Grande, but several priests and soldiers stayed an additional two years. The [[Chamuscado and Rodríguez Expedition]] followed in 1581, and [[Antonio de Espejo]] in 1583. [[Juan de Oñate]] visited Zuni territory in 1598 and 1604 looking for copper mines, but without success. [[Francisco Manuel de Silva Nieto]] established a mission at [[Hawikuh]] in 1629 with two Franciscan priests. They completed a church compound in 1632, and established a second mission in Halona. Shortly afterwards, the Zuni destroyed the missions, killing two priests, and then retreated to [[Dowa Yalanne]], where they remained for the next three years. The Spanish built another mission in Halona in 1643.<ref name=p109/><ref name=nb/>{{rp|56–59}}

Before the [[Pueblo Revolt]] of 1680, the Zuni lived in six villages. After the revolt, until 1692, they took refuge in a defensible position atop ''[[Dowa Yalanne]]'', a steep [[mesa]] 5&nbsp;km (3.1 miles) southeast of the present Pueblo of Zuni; ''Dowa'' means "corn", and ''yalanne'' means "mountain". After the establishment of peace and the [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|return of the Spanish]], the Zuni relocated to their present location, returning to the mesa top only briefly in 1703.<ref>Flint, Richard and Shirley Cushing Flint [http://newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=21237 "Dowa Yalanne, or Corn Mountain"]. {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120714042635/http://newmexicohistory.org/filedetails_docs.php?fileID=21237 |date=2012-07-14 }} New Mexico Office of the State Historian. 21 April 2012.</ref> By the end of the 17th century, only Halona was still inhabited of the original six villages. Yet, satellite villages were settled around Halona, and included Nutria, Ojo Caliente, and Pescado.<ref name=nb/>{{rp|67–69, 73–78}}

Of the three Zuni missions, only the church at Halona was rebuilt after the reconquest. According to [[Nancy Bonvillain]], "Indeed, by the late eighteenth century, Spanish authorities had given up hope of dominating the Zuni and other western Pueblo Indians, and in 1799 only seven Spanish people were recorded as living among the Zuni.". In 1821, the Franciscans ended their missionary efforts.<ref name=nb/>{{rp|71–74}}

In 1848, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Henderson P. Boyakin signed a treaty with Zuni and Navajo leaders stating the Zuni "shall be protected in the full management of all their rights of Private Property and Religion...[by] the authorities, civil and military, of New Mexico and the United States." Observing the Zuni in the 1850s, [[Balduin Möllhausen]] noted "In all directions, fields of wheat and maize, as well as gourds and melons, bore testimony to their industry."<ref name=nb/>{{rp|81, 83}}

The Zuni Reservation was created by the United States federal government in 1877, and enlarged by a second [[Executive order]] in 1883.<ref name=nb/>{{rp|86–88}}

[[Frank Hamilton Cushing]], an [[anthropologist]] associated with the [[Smithsonian Institution]], lived with the Zuni from 1879 to 1884. He was one of the first non-native participant-observers and ethnologists at Zuni. In 1979, it was reported that some members of the Pueblo consider he had wrongfully documented the Zuni way of life, exploiting them by photographing and revealing sacred traditions and ceremonies.<ref>Frank Hamilton Cushing, ''Zuni'' (University of Nebraska, 1979).</ref>

During the early 2000s, the Zuni opposed the development of a [[coal mining|coal mine]] near the [[Zuni Salt Lake]], a site sacred to the Zuni and under Zuni control.<ref>{{cite news |last=Neary |first=Ben |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-feb-18-me-26824-story.html |title=Mining Plan Pits Tribe Against Power Industry |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=18 February 2001 |access-date=26 May 2009}}</ref> The mine would have extracted water from the [[aquifer]] below the lake and would also have involved construction between the lake and the Zuni. The plan was abandoned in 2003 after several lawsuits.<ref>{{cite news |last=Neary |first=Ben |title=Utility Drops Plans for Coal Mine |url=http://www.sacredland.org/zuni_salt_lake_saved.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040630011953/http://www.sacredland.org/zuni_salt_lake_saved.html |archive-date=30 June 2004 |work=[[Santa Fe New Mexican]] |date=5 August 2003 |access-date=26 May 2009}}</ref><ref name=nb/>{{rp|117–119}}

<gallery widths="200px" heights="200px">
File:We-Wa, a Zuni berdache, weaving - NARA - 523796 (cropped).jpg|[[We'wha|We'Wha]] (1849–1896), a celebrated Zuni [[lhamana]] weaver at work on a backstrap loom, photo: [[John K. Hillers]], {{Circa|1871}}–1907
File:Image taken from page 14 of 'Report of an expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers by Captain L. Sitgreaves (11042155095) (cropped).jpg|Image of [[Zuni Pueblo]] created during the U.S. Army [[Corps of Topographical Engineers]]'s 1851 expedition to Arizona which was led by [[Lorenzo Sitgreaves|Captain Sitgreaves]]<ref name="Granger1960">{{cite book |first=Byrd H. |last=Granger|title=Arizona Place Names |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I7r_ZwEACAAJ |access-date=9 December 2011 |year=1960 |publisher=[[University of Arizona Press]] |page=21}}</ref>
File:Lutakawi.jpg|Lutakawi, Zuni Governor, photographed before 1925 by [[Edward S. Curtis]]
File:Zuni Pueblo2.jpg|Zuni [[pueblo]] middle court, in 1879
File:Littlecoloradomap.png|Zuni River, Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. The Zuni people have inhabited the [[Zuni River]] valley since the last millennium BCE
File:Ancient Pueblo Town of Zuni, Western New Mexico (cropped).jpg|Zuni men and the ancient Pueblo Town of Zuni, {{circa|1868}}
File:Edward S. Curtis Collection People 082.jpg|Two Zuni girls, photographed by Edward S. Curtis, {{circa|1926}}
</gallery>

==Culture==
[[File:She-we-na (Zuni Pueblo) (Native American). Kachina Doll (Paiyatemu), late 19th century.jpg|thumb|upright|She-we-na (Zuni Pueblo). ''[[Kachina doll]] (Paiyatemu)'', late 19th century. [[Brooklyn Museum]]]]{{More citations needed section|date=February 2023}}
The Zuni traditionally speak the [[Zuni language]], a [[language isolate]] that has no known relationship to any other Native American language. Linguists believe that the Zuni have maintained the integrity of their language for 6,000-to-7,000 years.<ref name="AS">{{cite web |title=Zuni Origins |url=https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/projects/zuni-origins/ |publisher=Archaeology Southwest |access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref> The Zuni do, however, share a number of words from [[Keresan languages|Keresan]], [[Hopi]], and [[Pima people|Pima]] pertaining to religion. The Zuni continue to practice their traditional religion with its regular [[ceremony|ceremonies]] and dances, and an independent and unique belief system.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}

The Zuni were and are a traditional people who live by [[irrigated agriculture]] and raising livestock. Gradually the Zuni farmed less and turned to [[sheep]] and [[cattle]] [[herding]] as a means of economic development. Their success as a desert agri-economy is due to careful management and conservation of resources, as well as a complex system of community support. Many contemporary Zuni also rely on the sale of traditional arts and [[craft]]s. Some Zuni still live in the old-style Pueblos, while others live in modern houses. Their location is relatively isolated, but they welcome respectful tourists{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}.

The Zuni Tribal Fair and [[Indian rodeo|rodeo]] is held the third weekend in August. The Zuni also participate in the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial, usually held in early or mid-August. The [[A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center]] is a tribal museum that showcases Zuni history, culture, and arts.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}

===Ethnobotany===
The Zuni utilize many local plants in their culture. For an extensive list, see the main article, "[[Zuni ethnobotany]]". Zuni have developed knowledge of local plants that are used for medical practices and religious rites.<ref name="Ethnobotany">{{cite journal |last1=Camazine |first1=S. |last2=Bye |first2=R.A. |title=A study of the medical ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico |journal=[[Journal of Ethnopharmacology]] |date=December 1980 |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=365–388 |doi=10.1016/s0378-8741(80)81017-8 |pmid=6893476 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6893476/ |access-date=23 December 2020}}</ref>

===Pottery===
[[File:Water Jar, 1825-1850., 03.325.4723.jpg|thumbnail|Water Jar, 1825–1850, [[Brooklyn Museum]]]]
[[File:WLA brooklynmuseum Pueblo Zuni Water Jar.jpg|thumb|Zuni [[olla]], late 19th – early 20th century, 12.5″ high, [[Brooklyn Museum]]]]

Traditionally, Zuni women made [[pottery]] for storing food and water. They used symbols of their clans for designs. [[Clay]] for the pottery is sourced locally. Prior to its extraction, the women give thanks to the Earth Mother (''[[Zuni mythology|Awidelin Tsitda]]'') according to ritual. The clay is ground, sifted, mixed with water, rolled into a coil, shaped into a vessel or other design, and scraped smooth with a scraper. A thin layer of finer clay, called slip, is applied to the surface for extra smoothness and color. The vessel is polished with a stone after it dries. It is painted with home-made organic dyes, using a traditional [[yucca]] brush. The shape and painted images depend on the intended purpose of the pottery. To fire the pottery, the Zuni used animal dung in traditional [[kiln]]s. Today, Zuni potters might use electric kilns. While the firing was usually a community enterprise, silence or communication in low voices was considered essential in order to maintain the original "voice" of the "being" of the clay, and the purpose of the end product.<ref name="Smithsonian">Morrell, Virginia. [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/zuni.html "The Zuni Way."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905103755/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/zuni.html |date=September 5, 2013 }} ''Smithsonian Magazine.'' April 2007 (retrieved 13 Feb 2011)</ref><ref>Jesse Green, ed. ''Zuni: Selected Writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing''. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. {{ISBN|0-8032-7007-0}}</ref> Sales of pottery and traditional arts provide a major source of income for many Zuni people today.<ref name="Grugel">{{cite journal |last1=Grugel |first1=Andrea |title=Culture, religion and economy in the American southwest: Zuni Pueblo and Laguna Pueb |journal=[[GeoJournal|GeoJournal: Geography for and with Indigenous Peoples]] |date=2012 |volume=77 |issue=6 |pages=791–803 |jstor=23325388 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23325388 |access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref> An artisan may be the sole financial support for her immediate family as well as others. Many women make pottery or, more rarely, clothing or baskets.<ref name="ZSK">{{citation |last1=Belarde-Lewis |first1=Miranda |title=A Zuni System of Knowledge: The Arts |publisher=[[University of Washington]]}}</ref> Brown, black and red ornamentation can be found on traditional Zuni pots that are first covered with white slip. Common motifs are spiral scrolls edged with triangles, deer, as well as frogs, dragonflies and other symbols associated with rain and water. In addition to pots, Zuni produce owl figurines that are covered with white slip and painted with black and red motifs before firing. <ref name="Highwater AIA">{{cite book |last1=Highwater |first1=Jamake |title=Arts of the Indian Americas |date=1983 |publisher=Harper & Row |location=New York |isbn=9780735104822 |page=191}}</ref>

===Carving and silversmithing===
Zuni also make [[Zuni fetishes|fetishes]] and [[necklace]]s for the purpose of rituals and trade, and more recently for sale to collectors.

The Zuni are known for their fine [[lapidary]] work. Zuni jewelers set hand-cut turquoise and other stones in silver.<ref>Adair 14</ref> Today jewelry-making thrives as an art form among the Zuni. Many Zuni have become master stone-cutters. Techniques used include [[mosaic]] and [[channel inlay]] to create intricate designs and unique patterns.

Two specialties of Zuni jewelers are [[needlepoint]] and [[petit point]]. In making needlepoint, small, slightly oval-shaped stones with pointed ends are set in silver bezels, close to one another and side by side to create a pattern. The technique is normally used with [[turquoise]], sometimes with [[coral (gemstone)|coral]] and occasionally with other stones in creating necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings. Petit point is made in the same fashion as needlepoint, except that one end of each stone is pointed, and the other end is rounded.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}}

===Religion===
{{Further|Zuni religion}}

Religion is central to Zuni life. Their traditional religious beliefs are centered on the three most powerful of their [[deity|deities]]: Earth Mother, Sun Father, and Moonlight-Giving Mother. The religion is [[kachina|katsina]]-based, and ceremonies occur during [[winter solstice]], summer, harvest, and again in winter.<ref name=nb/>{{rp|14–15,25–40}}

Priesthood includes three priests (north, above and below), and Pekwin (the above priest) determines the religious calendar. A religious society is associated with each of the six kivas, and each boy is initiated into one of these societies.<ref name="bw">{{cite book |last1=Wright |first1=Barton |title=History and Background of Zuni Culture, in Patterns and Sources of Zuni Kachinas |date=1988 |publisher=Hamsen Publishing Company |isbn=9780960132249 |pages=37–38}}</ref>

===Shalako===
{{Main|Shalako}}
Shalako is a series of ceremonial dances that take place throughout the night<ref name="SI">{{cite web |title=Zuni Shalako Figure |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/zuni-shalako-figure-767 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=23 December 2020}}</ref> on or around the [[winter solstice]]. They are closed to non-native individuals unless there is a personal invitation by a tribal member. The ceremony also blesses the houses that were built during the year. The blessing takes the form of singing that accompanies six dancers who are dressed in Shalako outfits.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wright |first1=Barton |title=Patterns and Sources of Zuni Kachinas |date=1988 |publisher=Hamsen Publishing |isbn=9780960132249 |pages=42–45, 80–101}}</ref> These outfits can be as high as eight feet; the dancers wearing them represent "couriers of the rain deities come to bless new homes".<ref name="Pueblo of Zuni">{{cite web |title=Our Culture |url=http://www.ashiwi.org |publisher=Pueblo of Zuni |access-date=23 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="Bonvillain">{{cite book |last1=Bonvillain |first1=Nancy |title=The Zuni |date=2011 |publisher=Chelsea House Publishers |location=New York |isbn=9781604137996}}</ref><ref name="Cushing-Mythic World">{{cite book |last1=Cushing |first1=Frank |title=The Mythic World of the Zuni |date=1988 |publisher=[[University of New Mexico Press]] |location=Albuquerque |isbn=9780826313874}}</ref> The dancers move from house to house throughout the night; at dawn Saiyatasha performs a final prayer and the ceremony is complete.<ref name="Cushing-Mythic World" />

==In popular culture==
In the novel ''[[Brave New World]]'', one of the main characters is a man named John of British descent who grew up among a community of Zuni people in New Mexico.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Edward S. Curtis Collection People 071.jpg|Zuni Girl, photographed by [[Edward S. Curtis]]
File:CEX D303 Zuñis in typical modern costume.jpg|Zuñis in typical modern costume, 1896
File:Zuni vases.jpg|Zuni water vases
File:Zuni pottery (2).jpg|Zuni pottery
File:Zuni paint and condiment cups.jpg|Zuni paint and condiment cups
File:Zuni ladles of clay.jpg|Zuni ceramic ladles
File:Zuni bird effigies.jpg|Zuni bird effigies
File:Clay baskets of the Zuni.jpg|Zuni clay baskets
File:Animal effigies of the Zuni.jpg|Zuni animal effigies
File:Zuni sashes.jpg|Zuni woven sashes
</gallery>

== Notable Zuni people ==
* [[Gomeo Bobelu]], jeweler and activist
* [[Emily Pinto]], painter
* [[Percy Tsisete Sandy]] (Kai-Sa [Red Moon]), painter
* [[We'wha]], weaver

==See also==
*[[Zuni Indian Reservation|Zuni Reservation]]
*[[Zuni language]]
*[[Zuni mythology]]
*[[Zuniceratops]]
*[[Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico]]

== Citations ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== References ==
* Adair, John. [https://books.google.com/books?id=sfzE0q-7YT0C ''The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths'']. Norman: [[University of Oklahoma Press]], 1989. {{ISBN|978-0-8061-2215-1}}.
* Cushing, Frank Hamilton. Jesse Green, ed. ''Zuni: Selected Writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing''. Lincoln: [[University of Nebraska Press]], 1978. {{ISBN|0-8032-2100-2}}.
* Pritzker, Barry M. ''A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples.'' Oxford: [[Oxford University Press]], 2000. {{ISBN|978-0-19-513877-1}}.
* Wade, Edwin L. "The Ethnic Art Market in the American Southwest, 1880–1980." George, W. Stocking, Jr., ed. ''Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture (History of Anthropology)''. Vol. 3. Madison: [[University of Wisconsin Press]], 1988. {{ISBN|0-299-10324-2}}.

==Further reading==
* [[Ruth Benedict|Benedict, Ruth]]. ''Zuni Mythology''. 2 vols. Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, no. 21. New York: [[Columbia University Press]], 1935. AMS Press reprint, 1969.
* Bunzel, Ruth L. "[http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/zuni/bunzel/zunirel.htm Introduction to Zuni Ceremonialism]". (1932a); "Zuni Origin Myths". (1932b); "Zuni Ritual Poetry". (1932c). In Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. pp.&nbsp;467–835. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1932. Reprint, ''Zuni Ceremonialism: Three Studies''. Introduction by Nancy Pareto. [[University of New Mexico Press]], 1992.
* Bunzel, Ruth L. ''Zuni Texts''. Publications of the American Ethnological Society, 15. New York: G.E. Steckert & Co., 1933
* Cushing, Frank Hamilton, Barton Wright, ''The Mythic World of the Zuni'', [http://www.unmpress.com/ University of New Mexico Press], 1992, hardcover, {{ISBN|0-8263-1036-2}}
* Herrick, Dennis. (2018) ''Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America''. [http://www.unmpress.com/ University of New Mexico Press], hardcover, {{ISBN|978-0-8263-5981-0}}
* Davis, Nancy Yaw. (2000). ''The Zuni enigma''. Norton. {{ISBN|0-393-04788-1}}
* Eggan, Fred and T.N. Pandey. "Zuni History, 1855–1970". ''[[Handbook of North American Indians]], Southwest''. Vol.9. Ed. By Alfonso Ortiz. pp.&nbsp;474–481. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1979.
* Hart, E. Richard, 2000. "Zuni Claims: An Expert Witness’ Reflections," ''American Indian Culture and Research Journal,'' 24(1): 163–171.
* Hart, E. Richard, ed. ''Zuni and the Courts: A Struggle for Sovereign Land Rights.'' Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. {{ISBN|978-0-7006-0705-1}}.
* Kroeber, Alfred L. (1984). ''Zuni kin and clan''. AMS Press. {{ISBN|0-404-15618-5}}
* Newman, Stanley S. ''Zuni Dictionary''. Indiana University Research Center, Publication Six. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1967. {{asin|B0007F3L0Y}}.
* Roberts, John. "The Zuni". ''In Variations in Value Orientations''. Ed. by F.R. Kluckhorn and F.L. Strodbeck. pp.&nbsp;285–316. Evanston, IL and Elmsford, NY: Row, Peterson, 1961.
* Smith, Watson and John Roberts. ''Zuni Law: A Field of Values''. Papers of the Peabody Museum of the American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 43. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum, 1954.
* Tedlock, Barbara. [https://books.google.com/books?id=T3oLAAAAYAAJ ''The Beautiful and the Dangerous: Dialogues with the Zuni Indians''], New York: [[Penguin Books]], 1992.

==External links==
{{Commons category|Zuni}}
{{Wikisource|Zuñi}}
* [http://www.ashiwi.org/ Pueblo of Zuni official website]
* [http://www.ashiwi-museum.org/ A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center] at Zuni
* [http://www.zunipuebloart.org/ Pueblo of Zuni official Artist’s Art Walk website]
* [http://www.amerindianarts.us/zuni_worldview.html The Zuni Worldview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604221139/http://www.amerindianarts.us/zuni_worldview.html |date=June 4, 2013 }}
* [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/zuni/zuniindianhist.htm Zuni Indian Tribe History], Access Genealogy
* [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16932 ''The Religious Life of the Zuñi Child''] by [[Matilda Coxe Stevenson|(Mrs.) Tilly E. (Matilda Coxe EStevenson)]], from [[Project Gutenberg]]
* [https://www.ducksters.com/history/native_americans/pueblo_tribe.php Pueblo tribe (Zuni is Pueblo)]
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20061016220413/http://www.picture-history.com/zuni-index-001.htm Collection of Historical Photographs of Zunis]}}
* [http://agoras.typepad.fr/regard_eloigne/2008/07/quand-les-katchinas-dansent-a-cibola-mythologie-et-rites-des-indiens-zunis.html Quand les Katchinas dansent a Cibola. Mythologie et rites des indiens Zunis], 15 July 2008
* [http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/books/book_74.cfm ''Zuni Breadstuff''] by [[Frank Hamilton Cushing]], from [[Michigan State University]] Libraries – The Historic American Cookbook Project

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